Chattanooga Pulse

Written by Pulse Staff
Wednesday, 29 October 2008 19:17

• Some people have some serious trust issues. In what appears to be a case of a husband wanting to keep track of his wife’s whereabouts at all times, police were called to the parking lot of a medical office on Gunbarrel Road after someone noticed a man apparently placing some sort of device underneath a car. The office was evacuated as the bomb squad removed a suspicious device from underneath the vehicle, and then detonated it for safety reasons. It was determined that the device was in fact a GPS unit. The owner of the car was questioned when it was determined that her husband matched the description and he was subsequently arrested.

• Some thieves aren’t very good at planning things through. Such was the case of a wannabe-car thief on Mercer Street last week. A security guard at a local business said someone broke into the back parking lot, knocked out the window of a Mercury and attempted to drive it off the lot. However, the not-so-bright criminal had not taken into account how he was going to get past the security fence enclosing the lot, and after repeated unsucessful attempts to ram the car through the fence, gave up and walked away from the scene.

• If you ever wonder what police are doing when they are driving around town, here’s one answer. An observant officer patrolling E. 23rd Street noticed a window broken out at a traQnsmission shop. Upon investigating, a juvenile was found hiding underneath a work bench. In his possession were ten sets of keys which he had taken from a work board. He was apparently trying to figure out which one unlocked a Cadillac in the fenced lot. The keys were returned, the window was boarded up, and the juvenile got a free ride in a not-as-fancy-as-a-Cadillac Ford Crown Victoria straight to the jail.

• When is a BB gun not a BB gun? That is a question facing police officers after they responded to a call on 13th Avenue. A women claimed that while riding her bicycle down the street, she heard several “loud pops” and then felt a pain in her back. She suspected that she had been shot at with a BB gun, and directed officers towards a nearby group of kids. Officers were unable to find any type of gun, BB or otherwise, and were perplexed until the heard the same “loud pops”…at which point they realized the sounds were coming from a nearby oak tree which was shedding acorns